Europe - Medieval
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$49.92 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691153434
- Language: English
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Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science
$18.99 Read moreConjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase ‘medieval medicine’ sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygien… [more below]
- Author: Mount, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2016
- ISBN10: 144565542X
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
$13.95 Add to cartThis narrative of events between the years 1173 and 1202–as recorded by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk who lived in the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, in the region of West Suffolk–affords many unique ins… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Jocelin of Brakelond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554935
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
$30.00 Add to cartA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII
“A delight–immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, ful
- Author: Wellesley, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675088
- Language: English
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though … [more below]
- Author: Cantor, Norman F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797749
- Language: English
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Alfred’s Dynasty: How an Anglo-Saxon King and His Family Defeated the Vikings and Created England
$36.99 Add to cartIn 878, Alfred, king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion. Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if he and his kingdom were about to be destroyed. Yet within months he had d… [more below]
- Author: Bartlett, W. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1398110418
- Language: English
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
$39.99 Add to cartIn her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393059758
- Language: English
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On the Spanish Inquisition – Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)
$30.00 Add to cartThe Spanish Inquisition calls to mind cruelty, injustice, and religious persecution, but in On the Spanish Inquisition, Maistre shows us that the facts are quite different. So far from being cruel, he
- Author: De Maistre, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1922602612
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$21.95 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691204225
- Language: English
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The World of the Crusades
$24.00 Read moreA lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, b- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274211
- Language: English
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
$21.00 Read moreAfter the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost. This thrilling history tracks three cru… [more below]
- Author: Moller, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1101974060
- Language: English
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The Knight Who Gave Us King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory, Knight Hospitaller
$21.95 Read moreRarely does serious, scholarly, peer-reviewed research into the life of a historic person uncover a factual story like this one, as intriguing as modern mystery-adventure fiction. For centuries, reade
- Author: Lampp Linton Ph. D., Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986815725
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda Six Cosmology Poems
$18.00 Add to cartThe Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals o
- Author: Kvilhaug, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1959350129
- Language: English
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
$25.00 Add to cart“The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117424
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
$25.00 Add to cartA “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
*Lawrence Wright, author o- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 12 1987
- ISBN10: 0345349571
- Language: English
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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction
$30.00 Add to cartThe digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our sc… [more below]
- Author: Kreiner, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1631498053
- Language: English
